Counterpart

Overview

Howard Silk works for a bureaucratic UN agency based in Berlin for thirty years, his station too low for him to be told what his work really involves. In fact, the agency is a crossing point to a parallel Earth, one that diverged from his world during the Cold War. Silk’s “other” self, his counterpart from the other side, is, among other things, a field agent who regularly makes crossings to retrieve “others” who have gone rogue. Factional in-fighting in the agency on the other side spills over on to this side, putting Silk and his comatose wife in danger.